Harry potter deathly hallows part 1 end in book

#Harry potter deathly hallows part 1 end in book series#

I'll keep my recounting of the plot brief, because, quite frankly, you have either read the book, or you've read the reviews, so you know the premise. п»їп»їп»їп»їThis is a very long way to introduce my thoughts on The Deathly Hallows, Part 1, directed by David Yates (director of the two previous films, the solid Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and the wonderful Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)). Back in their day, IвЂ™ll bet Tolkien, Dickens and Shakespeare (and the Roman myth writers) probably had the same charges levelled at them. Sure, I also recognize that perhaps Rowling was not entirely original in everything she did (there are echoes of Tolkien, Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bible, Greek and Roman myth, etc.), but as someone said a long time ago, there are only seven basic plots in the world and all we can do is endlessly repeat them. This hope comes from enjoying the characters and the world that Rowling created. Yes, as a fan, I want the films to always be good, and I've been generally happy with all of them on some level (even the second one had a great hammy performance by Kenneth Branagh). Perhaps somebody as brilliant as CuarГіn might have done something with it, but since the material is so weak, perhaps not. He should have been replaced on the second. Since the first two films were only mildly dark (each succeeding book and film have become increasingly darker), he was probably a serviceable director for at least the first picture (he is known to work well with child actors). It was a poor piece of staging and direction. That doesnвЂ™t make any sense.вЂќ Now, a normal person would look at the ticket and then look up at the person they are speaking to, but because Hagrid was supposed to vanish without Harry noticing, Columbus had Radcliffe just stare fixedly at the ticket as he spoke.

Harry stares at his train ticket and says a ponderous line such as вЂњHagrid, this ticket says Platform 9 Вѕ. Harry is on a bridge with Hagrid as Hagrid departs. (There's one sequence in the first film, Philosopher's Stone (2001), when Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane)В is about to leave Harry at the KingвЂ™s Cross station in London, that is so poorly directed it threw me out of the film for a moment. I will always have respect for him on one level вЂ“ his choice of the three leads was inspired вЂ“ but he lacks visual inventiveness and can be quite sloppy. With this second novel, Rowling didn't seem to have a strong handle on the story, or where she was going with it, so both versions meandered and only found their respective legs during the finale.

#Harry potter deathly hallows part 1 end in book series#

The closest to bad that the series got was Chris Columbus' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and that was partially because it was based on the weakest book in the series. We have been very fortunate withВ Harry Potter on the big screen. Only occasionally have I regretted some of the excisions made for all the films. Everything in both works brilliantly, and yet screenwriter Steve Kloves (writer of all the films except Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), while staying true to RowlingвЂ™s template, was unafraid to strip away extraneous plot and characters. For example, it is no accident that the best film, Alfonso CuarГіn's absolutely sublime Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), is based on the best of the books. There have been moments in all of them when my patience has been tried just as much as my enthusiasm has been elevated. That does not mean, however, I've set my critical faculties aside when it comes to either the novels or the films. Rowling's books and the Warner Brothers adaptations. From the beginning, I've been a fan of J.K. As we approach the end of the long road that is the Harry Potter film series with the release this past weekend of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, I want to make one thing clear.